gEDA-user: PCB: Rotate in steps of 30 and 45 degree?

[Xtian Xultz]

Em Seg 02 Out 2006 14:36, DJ Delorie escreveu:
> > Has anyone thought about doing a footprint rotating utility?
>
> The problem isn't rotating the footprint, it's that nothing in pcb
> expects pads to be other than orthogonal.  For example, the gerber
> exporter can't plot angled lines with square corners, it would have to
> draw them as filled polygons.  The autorouter doesn't know about them
> either, nor does the optimizer.

Even the 45 deg lines? What a mess... 
I see some boards that have one or two chipsets at 45 deg, they made all the 
pads as polygons?